Tanton quarantino5/8/2023 ![]() About 4 of those hours is the first act, and I believe at least one hour could be cut, perhaps even two or three, without losing anything of significance, not in terms of theme, mood, atmosphere, story, character, or anything. ![]() If there is one criticism I can level at this film, it's that there's no practical reason for it to be 7 hours and 12 minutes long. ![]() She fooled the cat into believing she was going to provide life-sustaining food, much in the same way Irimias has fooled the villagers into starting a commune to grow life-sustaining food. Irimias wields control over the other characters similarly to how the girl wielded control over the cat. He awakens to the sound of imaginary bells, still desiring salvation to come but refusing to seek it out on his own. Only Futaki refuses to listen to Irimias in the end, going off on his own path, back to his old life of squalor. These are characters so desperate for someone to come and save them, yet unwilling to do anything to save themselves. They, too, were fooled by thinking something was divine when it was not. He later dupes them into taking all their money and sends them off to perform labor at the behest of the state. This didn't really click for me until the final segment with the doctor who is fooled by the sound of bells which he assumes are divine, but are really coming from just some guy, which mirrors the main throughline of the film when Irimias returns to the villagers as a Christ-like figure with a plan to save them from their wretched lives.
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